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· 2/12/2016

State of Tennessee v. Terry Eugene Fisher, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that district court should have promptly dismissed case for lack of personal jurisdiction rather than dismissing under Anti-SLAPP statute
  • holding that accessibility of allegedly defamatory statements within District is inadequate to establish that defendant engages in persistent course of conduct within that District
  • holding that the district court must consider a challenge to personal jurisdiction before considering the merits of a claim
  • holding that district court should have promptly dismissed case for lack of personal jurisdiction rather than dismissing under Anti-SLAPP statute
  • holding that subsection (a)(1) did not supply personal jurisdiction over defendant who “had not even visited the District of Columbia for any purpose” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • explaining that “Subsection (a)(4)’s reach is far more cabined” than the federal Due Process Clause

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Judges: Judge Robert L. Holloway, Jr.

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